Soyuz MS-13

Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, was a crewed Soyuz mission launched on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing – ^[2][5] carrying three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, an American flight engineer, and a European flight engineer. Soyuz MS-13 was the 142nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was at one point the last Soyuz flight contracted by NASA in the expectation that subsequent astronaut transport would be provided by the Commercial Crew Program,^[6] but in early 2019, NASA sought to purchase two additional Soyuz seats to provide greater certainty given delays in that program.^[7]

Soyuz MS-13

Soyuz MS-13 approaches the ISS
Mission type	ISS crew transport
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2019-041A
SATCAT no.	44437
Mission duration	200d 16h 44m
Orbits completed	3,216 [1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Soyuz-MS
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-MS 11F747 No. 746
Manufacturer	Energia
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Aleksandr Skvortsov Luca Parmitano
Launching	Andrew R. Morgan
Landing	Christina Koch
Callsign	Cliff
Start of mission
Launch date	20 July 2019, 16:28:21 UTC[2]
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1/5
Contractor	RKTs Progress
End of mission
Landing date	6 February 2020, 09:12:45 UTC[3][1]
Landing site	Steppes of Kazakhstan.
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Inclination	51.6°
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Zvezda aft
Docking date	20 July 2019, 22:47:50 UTC[1]
Undocking date	26 August 2019, 03:35 UTC[4]
Time docked	36 days, 4 hours and 48 minutes
Docking with ISS (Relocation)
Docking port	Poisk zenith
Docking date	26 August 2019, 03:59 UTC[4]
Undocking date	6 February 2020, 05:50:28 UTC[1]
Time docked	164d 1h 51m
(l-r) Morgan, Skvortsov and Parmitano Soyuz programme (crewed) ← Soyuz MS-12 Soyuz MS-15 →

Crew

Position	Launching Crew member	Landing Crew member
Commander	Aleksandr Skvortsov, Roscosmos Expedition 60/61 Third and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Luca Parmitano, ESA Expedition 60/61 Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Andrew R. Morgan, NASA Expedition 60/61/62 First spaceflight	Christina Koch, NASA Expedition 59/60/61 First spaceflight

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Backup crew

Position	Crew member[1]
Commander	Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	Thomas Marshburn, NASA
Flight Engineer 2	Soichi Noguchi, JAXA

Relocation

The Soyuz crew relocated the MS-13 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda module and performed a manual docking on the Poisk module on 26 August 2019.^[4] This cleared the way for Soyuz MS-14 to perform an automatic docking on Zvezda, after a faulty signal amplifier on Poisk caused MS-14's first docking attempt to abort on 24 August 2019.^[9] The last time a Soyuz spacecraft was relocated was in August 2015 during the Soyuz TMA-16M mission.^[10]